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About & IIUM

Quality Day

Quality Day symbolizes International Islamic University's commitment to improve the quality of its services. It is also the day that the Rector delivers his status report and future plans or aspirations for the University and presents the Quality Awards to staff and agencies (academic and non-academic) who have excelled in their performance, duties and responsibilities.

Quality Day creates awareness in employees to incorporate positive values in their work. It is also one of the steps taken by the University to ensure better quality standards and to recognize those who have achieved quality culture being continuously impressed upon the University, insyaAllah, the spirit will continue to grow and flourish.

The slogan is and has always been Quality Culture - The Key to Comprehensive Excellence and we focus at different topic each year that is :-

~ 2002 - Istiqamah : Our Path to Quality.Istiqamah means to follow the straight path, to remain firm in one's principles and not to give up when faced with difficulties or hardships. It compels one to mean what one says and to perform deeds that will benefit all. Those who have Istiqamah, Allah has promised them great rewards and blessings in the world and in the hereafter.
(Surah Fussilat 41 : 31-35)

~ 2003 - Teamwork Towards Excellence.
Teamwork means cooperative effort by the members of a group or team to achieve a common goal. The members in the team have complementary skills and are committed to a common purpose or set of performance goals for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
The ability for continuous improvement is essential for all organizations and can be only achieved by improving the operation of key organizationals and can be only be achieved by improving the operation of key organisational processes. People operated these processes, so the challenge is to encourage individuals to get involved and use the power of teamwork to deliver real performance improvement. Success depends on creating the culture and providing the skills, tools and support to encourage and enable individuals at all levels in the organization to become involved. Without proper training in the necessary tools and techniques, failure is almost certain to occur and one rarely gets a second chance.

~ 2004 - Continual Improvement : Conquering the Heights of Excellence.'Continual' is defined as a process or something that is constantly or frequently occuring and going on in rapid succession. Improvement means to be better and progress or advance.
Hence, continual improvement can be reffered as a recurring activity to increase the ability to fulfill requirements or to increase the effectivenese of the management system and its processes. In line with IIUM's mission and vision among others which is to provide quality and excellence in education besides striving to achieve its goals if Integration, Islamization, Internationalization and Comprehensive Excellence (IIICE), continual improvement is extremely essential to serve the purpose for gradual and ongoing progress in producing quality learning, administration, services including quality staff and students. Weakness of flows can be detected and solutions or ways to overcome these weaknesses can also be avoided in the future. By learning through previous mistakes, the University will then be able to ensure continual improvement in assuring and realizing its goals by being a more competitive institution of higher learning.

~ 2005 - Continual Improvement - Conquering the Heights of Excellence.
'Continual' is defined as a process or something that is constantly or frequently occurring and going on in rapid succession. Improvement means to be better and progress or advance. Hence, continual improvement can be referred as a recurring activity to increase the ability to fulfill requirements or to increase the effectiveness of the management system and its processes.
In line with IIUM's mission and vision among others which is to provide quality and excellence in education besides striving to achieve its goals of Integration, Islamization, Internationalization and Comprehensive Excellence (IIICE), continual improvement is extremely essential to serve the purpose for gradual and ongoing progress in producing quality learning, administration, services including quality staff and students. Weaknesses or flaws can be detected and solutions or ways to overcome these weaknesses can also be avoided in the future. By learning through previous mistakes, the University will then be able to ensure continual improvement in assuring and realizing its goals by being a more competitive institution of higher learning
With this, it will enable us to meet the challenges and demands of globalization in the international front and we will be a step closer to achieving our vision.
Recently, we attained the certification of MS ISO 9001:2000 which was the outcome of relentless team effort. With istiqamah still fresh in our mind, we will continue to improve our performance and strive as a team, insyaAllah.

~ 2006 - Quality Thinking - Foundation of a Quality University.
The element of 'quality thinking' is necessary at the workplace towards achieving high quality performance. Quality thinking is the root of every effetive quality process. Quality thinking will help the staff gain variouselements such as by being more creative, critical, systematic, futuristic, paradoxical, global etc. Quality thinking among the IIUM staff is very important to develop effective and efficient leaders in the organization. The University's success will be defined by its ability to nurture quality thinking, develop a portfolio of diverse cognitive styles, and create a culture that values and respects everyone's contribution.

~ 2007 - Achieving Global Competitiveness.
Competitveness is a comparative concept of the ability and performance of the University to achieve excellent academic and other related services. To compete globally, the University needs to align its vision, strategies and goals to achieve operational excellence in a global market.
The chellenge for IIUM is to maintain and enhance high quality in teaching and learning, research and publications, as well as administration. These challenges will drive the value-creation process. Global competition will force the University to compete differently and efficiently, and search for excellent ways to manage its activities.

~ 2008 - Enhancing Quality Culture Towards Comprehensive Excellence
As the university marches towards achieving its goals and realizing its mission, there is a need to intensity the efforts towards enhancing the culture of comprehensive excellence at all levels. A strategic initiative and an all-encompassing plan need to be designed in order to ensure the attainment of the university's mission of comprehensive excellence. What is needed is to instill the culture and build the capacity of comprehensive excellence as a prior condition to materialize the mission and bear the fruits as stipulated.
The culture of comprehensive excellence encompresses a wide range of efforts and activities and involves all parties: namely, leadership, K/C/D/Is embark on reviewing their strategies and plans for the enhancement of the culture of comprehensive excellence in the course of the next three years.

~ 2009 - Enhancing Research and Innovation Towards Comprehensive Excellence As the university marches towards achieving its goals to become one of the Research universities in the region, thus the culture of research and innovation is vital to be institutionaled among the IIUM community.
The culture of comprehensive excellence encompasses a wide range of efforts and activities and involves all parties; namely, leadership, K/C/D/I, staff, students, stakeholdes, alumni, and other external associated players and partners. It is indeed timely that all K/C/D/Is embark on reviewing their strategies and plans for the enhancement of the culture of comprehensive excellence in research and innovation.